I write the book for one person – for Fiona [Staples, the artist]. I spend a lot of time just thinking how she’ll react to things and manipulating her into drawing perverse, horrific things. It’s a really weird job but I enjoy it.
BRIAN K. VAUGHANAdaptations are great, but for me, comics have always been the destination, not a stepping-stone to get somewhere else.
More Brian K. Vaughan Quotes
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I know I’m a grumpy old man, but I’m always more delighted by readers talking about the actual comics than people talking about how eager they are to have their favorite comics be “elevated” into another medium.
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Some people are haunted by their pasts, but not my family. I mean, how can you be haunted by something that never really dies?
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Next up, I’m going to grow a big, disgusting beard, just so people will start talking about Alan Moore and me in the same breath.
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No. No, first comes boyhood. You get to play with soldiers and spacemen, cowboys and ninjas, pirates and robots. But before you know it, all that comes to an end. And then, Remo Williams, is when the adventure begins.
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We’ve all seen lots of stories about a young protagonist having adventures, and usually they’re all boys, [and] there is sometimes a token female, or two.
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That was the appealing thing about comics: There literally is no budget in comics. You’re only limited by your imagination.
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After ten years of toiling away in Hollywood, I realized that there’s no better place for new ideas than comics.
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Adaptations are great, but for me, comics have always been the destination, not a stepping-stone to get somewhere else.
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I like things that are weirdly imaginative and couldn’t be real, but I also like stories that are recognizable and relatable.
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I mean, do you know what you get when you call a suicide hotline in New York city? A busy signal. Literally.
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Every issue, the characters and I duke it out. They usually win.
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I love that the book [Paper Girls ] gets to kind of evolve and change in each era. Our third storyline is our best so far.
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I don’t start a story until I know where it’s going to end.
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It was interesting looking back at the ’80s and trying to find newspaper headlines from the time – the cliché of history repeating itself.
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Life is mostly just learning how to lose.
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